Studying mixed grassland ecosystems II: Optimum pixel size

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 108-115

  He, Yuhong ^a   Guo, Xulin ^a   Wilmshurst, John ^b   Si, Bing Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Western and Northern Service Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXELS; THEOREM PROVING; WAVELET ANALYSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

CYCLICITY; GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEMS; SPATIAL VALUATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI); LITTER-CORRECTED ADJUSTED TRANSFORMED SOIL-ADJUSTED VEGETATION INDEX (L-ATSAVI); MIXED GRASS ECOSYSTEM; SEMIVARIOGRAM ANALYSIS; PATTERN INTERPRETATION; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; VEGETATION INDEX; GRASSLAND; PIXEL SIZE; SAMPLING THEOREMS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION;

ECOSYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33746160680     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m06-018     Document Type: Article

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